rfc or suggestion--save backups function for gnucash

[John C. Martin]

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On Tuesday 20 July 2004 05:34 pm, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Sorry, but I still feel that it is NOT gnucash's job to make sure your
> kernel wont screw us over.
>
> -derek

Indeed.  If kernel flakiness is the suspected problem, having "backup" 
features in a single application is the least of your problems, and is 
unwise.  

It sounds like you are looking for more of a fault tolerant solution.  In the 
world of large scale business systems that I am accustomed to, we use 
journaling file systems, transaction checkpointing, redundant hardware, as 
well as tape and offsite data backups.  Large numbers of transactions are 
processed on an hourly basis, and all of the data and applications are 
considered to be of critical importance, so their value makes the data 
integrity measures worth the cost.  It is difficult to imagine how you could 
be using gnucash in a scenario that justified this level of effort or 
anything close.  The daily system backups that you do (you do have a backup 
plan, right?) should be more than adequate.

- --
John C. Martin
Small Bear Technical Consulting


>
> jdebert <jdebert at garlic.com> writes:
> > In the case of my corrupted data files, the kernel had problems with
> > "complex" apps like gnucash. Saving in gnucash trashed the files it
> > was writing, including backups.
> >
> > The wrapper used the relatively simple "cp", which the kernel seemed
> > to have no problem with.
> >
> > Most "complex" apps were affected by kernel misbehaviour. It just
> > happened that gnucash was the first thing used after a kernel
> > update. It was the first really bad kernel I'd ever had. Up til then,
> > they were sometimes flakey but never so bad as to damage stuff.
> >
> > The kernel also trashed 3 usb disks later on, wiping out the extra
> > backups.
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